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...patient who seemed to get along best with his transplanted heart was former Dentist Philip Blaiberg in Cape Town, Dr. Barnard's second recipient. Eleven days after the operation, Blaiberg, 58, was sitting on the edge of his bed and swinging his legs like a schoolboy. This was not mere bravado, but was designed to help his circulation. He drank a "shandy" (beer and lemonade) and sang a Brahms lullaby...
...different atmosphere. The 30-man team of surgeons, physicians and nurses were less tense. As Barnard put it: "We are not going into the unknown-we are going where we have been before." Another difference was encouraging. The transplanted heart began beating spontaneously when it was hooked into Blaiberg's circulation, needing no electric shock to start...
...operation, to the time Blaiberg's chest was closed, took five hours. When he regained full consciousness next morning, his first words were: "I'm thirsty. Please give my regards to my wife." Almost immediately Blaiberg was moved to a new hospital wing where, to guard him against an infection such as that which killed Washkansky, he was as isolated as antiseptic ingenuity could make him. Doctors and nurses en tering his room had first to undress in one antechamber, then scrub, then mask and robe themselves in sterile garments. Warned by experience that they might have overtreated...
...case, "to protect the network," Lucy Jarvis negotiated an agreement with Barnard's next patient, Philip Blaiberg, and his family. NBC would pay the Blaibergs $9,000 for exclusive interviews before the surgery, $25,000 for exclusive movie and still pictures of the operation itself, and $16,000 for exclusive post-operation coverage. Was this the start of an internetwork auction? Decidedly no, says CBS's Salant. "We did not bid for anything, and we didn't offer anyone anything. We don't believe in payments for rights to a hard-news story. Dr. Barnard doesn...
Sneaked Stills. As luck-and medicine-would have it, neither network got in. The Blaiberg operation came up too fast, and Barnard barred all film crews from the operation. A Cape Town fashion photographer, posing as a medical student, did sneak into the operating-room observation gallery and grabbed some stills; NBC attorneys got a temporary injunction prohibiting him from "selling or disposing" of them. A doctor who had brought his subminiature camera into the operation also took a few pictures but handed them over to Barnard after a reprimand...